A problem and a question

Hey everyone,

I got a new Acer Aspire 5100-5033 (the system in my sig) and I've got a problem and a question

First the problem. Whenever I run Any Half-Life 2 games I get the following error:
Internal driver error in IDirect3DDevice9: resent()

I've tried everything I can think of o make it work. All the settings on Minimum, 640x480 resolution, even setting the command line to -dxlevel 70 forcing the game to run in DirectX 7 mode (tried dxlevel 80 also). Any suggestions would be great

Now my question. The restore partition on this puppy is Windows XP. I've been having enough compatibility and driver issues that it would be nice to use XP, but I can't afford it. Has anyone figured out a way to hack this partition to use as a main system?

Thanks for the help

 

What do you mean you can't afford to use the Windows XP in the recovery partition....?

 

Hi everyone, I am not sure where to post this under however, I am going to make this short and simple. I was updating anti-virus program (norton) on the Gateway M305 notebook. It really took a long time to load all program via start up. I found out that our notebook has 256 mb ram, 2.20 ghz pentium 4 with Window XP home edition. I am trying to find which antivirus program that will work well without losing the performance of the notebook. Please advise if anyone has information on how to do this. Thank you.

 

??????? Perhaps everyone could be more precise and coherent in this thread?

 

Try upgrading your ram, even an extra 256MB would really help.

 

Hi,

i would try the usual supects . Upgrade video driver, reinstall directx.
Yours

Tom

 

Eset's NOD32 is an excellent alternative to Norton, but it requires a subscription. You can download a full featured 30-day trial to test it. AVG has a very good free antivirus that's less resource demanding than Norton.

 

I'd also recommend AVAST which is free for home use:

 

Clarification. I would like to run XP, but I can't afford a new XP license.

As for the usual suspects, already did both before I posted.

 

I'm not sure I understand what you mean, what do you mean the restore partition is Windows XP, do you mean that the restore Disks you burnt are windows XP? In which case you should be able to use those to install XP, if the computer came with Vista pre-installed then while the restore partition may use XP underneath I really doubt it's a full copy of XP and could be used for anything (I use 98 to boot to dos on my restore disk, I can't obviously use that to install a full version of 98 since all it has is the Dos boot drivers).